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“But I would try, and when I failed, I would try again.” p.321

“Forgiveness is a gift only God can give you, baby. But me? I raised a child who shoulda known the difference between sugar and salt.” p.220

“I lived in the promise I’d made the moment I birthed them: to pull a world that was good to them from the depths of its horrors. I owed them the impossible.” p.128

“I was just a fragile thing in a sharp world, like every other girl is before they meet themselves, before they meet their child and know what it means to be tethered.” p.6